My gut reaction is that you have found a chink in the shadow armor. Do you have the quality of the shadow set to it's highest level for the light source? I've had similar problems with the old soft shadows model which was in C2 but from what I can see here, you must be using the new raytraced soft shadows. If this is a spline model, it's possible you have some weird quirk in the cross section at this juncture. A previous post in this forum discussed this concerning a sword I had made. I never really understood it and never went back to investigate it. That's as close as I'm going to be able to get ya. -Kix

-Kix